"...And Justice for All!"

"Justice Is Lost
Justice Is Raped
Justice Is Gone
Pulling Your Strings
Justice Is Done
Seeking No Truth
Winning Is All
Find it So Grim
So True
So Real"

James Hetfield, Metallica



For those who have not heard yet, Toronto resident and fitness physical expert David Carmichael, was found "Not criminally responsible" for the first degree murder of his 11 year old son, Ian. Was he guilty? Yes, the evidence not only pointed directly to him but he confessed to his crime. Yet he is still not responsible. Imagine that! You committ a heinous crime, you were aware of the act while you were committing it, and even though you are GUILTY you are just not responsible. Only in Canada! Where the perpetraitor's become victim's. Forsceneic psychopath's, I mean pyschiatrists, testified for both the Crown and Defence stating that he was suffering from a severe bout of depression. Yeah, that is too bad but how does this justify murdering your own child? According to Liberal appointed(that means un-elected) Ontario Superior Justice Helen Rady the rational(I.E. Justification for first degree murder) is because of Mr. Carmichaels disorder this "...rendered him incapable of knowing it was wrong." I consider the same line of reasoning every time I want to withhold paying any taxes but apparently there is no cop-out for that. I find it rather ironic that Judge Rady claim's that David was incapable of "...knowing it was wrong." when Dr. John Bradford of the Royal Ottawa Hospital testified that Carmichael believed killing Ian was the "morally right" thing to do because he thought the boy was growing increasingly violent and was going to stab his sister. Huh? If he didn't know right from wrong, as the judge seem's to think, then how could he possibly know or distinguish if ANYTHING at all was morally right? The intelligence of Judge Rady get's even better as she bellows out the rehearsed mantra chant of our (gag, puke!) justice system when she states (get ready, you have heard it all before) "I am satisfied that Mr. Carmichael poses no real threat to the public." Did you recognize that one. Judge Rady ends with "Indeed, Mr. Carmichael LIKELY poses more of a threat to himself than to the public." He likely? But the Judge is not exactly sure. I wonder if Ian would agree with her statement. It's amazing how Carmichael recalls everything about the night in question when he confessed to police how he gave Ian a mixture of sleeping pills with oranje juice, waited for him to fall asleep, then strangled him. Only he is not responsible because he was depressed. I get very depressed every time I am reminded that Paul Martin is still the Prime Minister but it certainly would not justify me taking a life now, would it? But, alas, this is justice in Canada. We are such a weak and tolerant society. What we cannot wake up to is the reality that justice and tolerance cannot co-exist. Otherwise we end up with numbbrained, deluded idiot's on a bench telling us we need to be more understanding of people like Dave Carmichael who premeditate the murder of their own children. To think our country has the gumption to condemn places like China for their inhumane treatment and violation of human rights against their own people while we coddle our own criminals for treating their victim's in the same manner. But that is typical Liberal hypocrisy in action. On the other hand, even if David was to be convicted of first degree murder, a charge carrying 25 years to life, this is afterall Canada where we apply the metric system to our sentence's. He would have been out in, oh..., probably 14 or 15, no let's be generous 18....days. Corrections Canada (Government of Canada) would not want to keep him in there too long because he would be taking up valuable space reserved for the real criminals of Canada. You know those hardened ones that try to get away without paying their taxes, or the prairie wheat farmer's caught selling their product over the border because their own Government wants to screw them with below rock bottom pricing, and of course the law abiding outdoorsman who did not register his hunting rifle. We all sleep better in this country knowing they are off the street. Until next time...